[Mike Browning]

I have been and am at this point. I was trying this particular preset out since it creates new frames instead of repeating them. Then I ran into the frame blending road block. But the frame rate and the preset is irrelevant to the question, so I reckon I shouldn’t have added those details. Thank you for the timely reply, though.

The real question that arose was about frame blending. So disregard the frame rate in this question. Are there any work arounds to frame blending edited sequences?

I’ve run into this before with a slow motion sequence. It was no problem to get around, because it was comprised of only a few clips that I could easily divide up in AE. But say, for instance, you have a 60 second, fast-paced timeline with lots of edits and you want to add AE’s advanced frame blending to smooth out the motion. Are there any options or expressions or ways to control this feature so you don’t get the crazy warps in between edits? Or am I wasting my time? I understand fully that you can re-render the source video, but let’s say for whatever reason you don’t want to do that.

Thanks

[Mike Browning]

Also should add for those who aren’t Canon users, ’24F’ is different from ’24p’, so it captures differently. Just so you know there is a distinction. I haven’t seen any patch notes from Avid highlighting a fix for this, but maybe someone has run across this?

At this point it seems my only option is to capture through another program (ala Premiere Pro) and import into Avid, but who wants to do those extra, time consuming steps? Bumping for input and advice.

Mike Browning

[Mike Browning]

I fixed the problem after some more proving. So if you looked at the original message and couldn’t answer because you either didn’t know or haven’t encountered it, this is for you.

Usually in Adobe products, a lot of problems are fixed simply by clearing the cache. I didn’t find an option to do so in Encore, so I had to do it manually. For the motion menus and other animations, go into the project’s “source” folder and then into the “menu” folder and delete the .mpg video files and like-named .xmpes files (not the PSD’s, you need them to create the menus). These are the renders that Encore generates. When you reopen the project and try to build again, you have to re-render the motion menus but it will definitely work now.

Also, just as a free Christmas bonus unrelated bug work around: when you close and try to restart Encore (in Windows at least), sometimes it will not open back up. This is because for some reason part of it is still running. ctrl+alt+delete to get the Windows task manager and look in the processes tab for something named Encore DVD something something, and stop that process. Now you can restart Encore. I encountered this a few times when trying to fix this project. Gee is Encore buggy or what?

Mike Browning

[Mike Browning]

Steven,

Thank you for the reply.

I actually did some more research after I posted and found out about your XML Wrench. I opened my project with it and lo, it seemed that my project was too large for XML Wrench to display all the lines (it simply cut it off at about 3600 lines – maybe this is a bug?). So it wasn’t able to check well-formed or valid and find anything other than the tag that got cut off at the end. So I set out to redo my edits, and then later after scanning the XML in a text editor, I thought I’d give it another try in XML Wrench – this time it displayed everything and well-formed and valid check gave me the thumbs up. Call it a miracle or just a fickle computer, but my project now opens!

All this to say that my project is fine now and thank you for your offer. If this happens again (and I’m sure it will), I will remember who to look to for help.

Just for discussion’s sake and future reference, is there a certain XML tag or parameter that’s usually the culprit in these project file corruptions?

Thanks again,
Mike Browning

[Mike Browning]

Nevermind… I figured it out.

For those of you having a similar problem, here’s what I did:

I simply opened the original in Premiere Pro and exported it with Adobe Media Encoder as MPEG2-DVD using the 7Mbps CBR 1 pass preset. This imported into Encore without needing transcoding, and the Build DVD continued with no more internal software error.

[Mike Browning]

I’m on PC with AE7 Pro

The problem is that there aren’t really any relevant settings to change in AE’s MPEG-2 dialogue.

I did actually bring an uncompressed QT version into Premiere Pro and convert it that way, and just compensated for the darkness. That fixed the scaling issues, and helped with the color, but still looks crummier than I’ve previously dealth with in MPEG-2.

I will keep playing with it

Thanks, all.

[Mike Browning]

thanks again

[Mike Browning]

Thanks, Dan.

I now have my color values.

Now, I’m a bit of an expressions idiot (I went ahead and said it so you don’t have to!)… how do I get this value to show up on the text? I originally had the fill color pickwhipped to the offset value, and simply enough that did the trick (except it was all a shade of black). Thanks in advance.

Mike Browning